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...image of Citi, which stands accused of unethical and illegal behavior on multiple fronts. Among the alleged transgressions: doling out shares of hot IPO shares to WorldCom executives in a bribe-like manner to win banking business, devising complex financing to help Enron conceal debt and having stock analysts hype the shares of companies that were investment-banking clients. While Salomon Smith Barney was making the VIPs rich, another Citi subsidiary was charging consumers high fees and above-market interest rates on loans, according to charges Citi just settled with the Federal Trade Commission...
Fashion insiders are not famous for their critical rigor, but even in this industry, people haven't seen the kind of hyper hype that surrounds the 21-year-old Posen in a long time...
...entry that has garnered the most buzz is NBC's Boomtown (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), which tells each story from the perspective of several characters. But don't believe the early hype that compares it to Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon: that's like saying because 24 takes place in one day, it's TV's Ulysses. Kurosawa questioned the nature of truth, telling a story through unreliable narrators. Boomtown's relatively straightforward narrative mainly means you get to see car crashes from two different angles. (CSI's flashbacks, which change as the investigators get closer to the truth...
...dogface at an Air Force base in Texas a year after Pearl Harbor. I don't recall that first year's anniversary as comparable in any way to the crescendo of media hype now being thrown at us over Sept. 11. While we feel compassion for those who lost loved ones, we need to look ahead. As a great nation, we should try to overlook our religious and ethnic differences and work with other nations to alleviate poverty and disease and create an environmentally safe world for future generations. Such a common goal would be a far greater memorial than...
Much of the hype is gone from nanotechnology, the term Drexler popularized for his world of very small wonders. But something more interesting has crept in: sales. The khakis and tennis balls are bringing in money, as are dozens of other new products made and enhanced through nanotechnology. To be sure, most nanotech companies are still investing more in R. and D. than they are collecting in revenue. But many commercial applications are in advanced stages of development or already on sale: handheld devices that can sense anthrax spores, hand cream that can protect us from them and computer chips...